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In article <1991Jun14.182614.23627@uai.com>, mrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig) writes:
|> In article <fredb.676836751@uther>, fredb@uther (Fred H. Bremmer) writes:
|> >mathys@dover.sps.mot.com (Yves Mathys) writes:
|> >
|> >>I would like to read a region and save it into a string variable. 
|> >
|> >Once you have the region in the kill ring, use the command M-x set-variable,
|> >tell it which variable you want to set, then use C-y to plug in the value
|> >that you want the variable to have.
|> 
|> That's right if you want to do it from the keyboard.  If you want to
|> do it in an ELisp program, the function you want buffer-substring.$$
|> -- 
This may be another approach to the problem that might be of interest to you.
^H apropos register
append-to-register	      
  Function: Append region to text in register REG.
copy-rectangle-to-register    
  Function: Copy rectangular region into register REG.
copy-to-register	      C-x x
  Function: Copy region into register REG.
insert-register		      C-x g
  Function: Insert contents of register REG.  REG is a character.
point-to-register	      C-x /
  Function: Store current location of point in a register.
prepend-to-register	      
  Function: Prepend region to text in register REG.
register-to-point	      C-x j
  Function: Move point to location stored in a register.
view-register		      
  Function: Display what is contained in register named REGISTER.

Register names are single CHARS. and any elisp code needs to be aware of that!

-eas-